The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and L2 Oral Performance Under Task-Based Careful Online Planning Condition

The study reported in this article aimed to investigate the way working memory capacity (WMC) interacts with careful online planning--a task-based implementation variable--to affect second language (L2) speech production. This issue is important to teachers, because it delves into one of the possibl...

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Published in:TESOL quarterly 2012-03, Vol.46 (1), p.165-175
Main Author: AHMADIAN, MOHAMMAD JAVAD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
BRIEF REPORTS AND SUMMARIES
English Language Learners
Foreign Countries
Grammatical clauses
Iran
Language
Language fluency
Males
Metacognition
Metalinguistics
Nonnative languages
Oral Language
Psycholinguistics
Second Language Learning
Second Languages
Short Term Memory
Speech
Speech production
Syntactics
Verbs
Working memory
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Summary:The study reported in this article aimed to investigate the way working memory capacity (WMC) interacts with careful online planning--a task-based implementation variable--to affect second language (L2) speech production. This issue is important to teachers, because it delves into one of the possible task-based implementation variables and thus could assist them in making empirically informed decisions in the classroom. It also bears significance for second language acquisition (SLA) researchers, in that it could help them test claims regarding the nature of interlanguages as well as the validity of speech production models that are essential in discussing the role and psycholinguistic functioning of planning in L2 performance and L2 acquisition. (Contains 2 tables.)
ISSN:0039-8322
1545-7249
DOI:10.1002/tesq.8